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** What Makes a Bad Grant? It’s Time to Change How We Decide
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In order to support grassroots movements and build communities, sector-wide perceptions of what constitutes a successful grant need to change. Isabel Sousa-Rodriguez, the program director at the Hazen Foundation, proposes how to make a powerful paradigm shift.
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On August 2, you’re invited to a leader salon inspired by our latest PEAK Journal, Career Journeys in Philanthropy ([link removed]) , co-hosted by EPIP. Some of the leaders highlighted in the issue will share their career journeys, then we’ll break out into more intimate groups for deeper conversation around the triumphs and challenges of pursuing a career in philanthropy.
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** Upcoming
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July 13
CHAPTER WEBINAR
Reducing Bias in Grantmaking, Part 2 (PEAK Rocky Mountain) ([link removed])

July 21
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July Coffee Hour (PEAK Minnesota) ([link removed])

July 26
PEER GROUP VIRTUAL MEETING
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August 2
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PEAK/EPIP Community Conversation: A Leader Salon on Career Pathways in Philanthropy ([link removed])

August 9
PEER GROUP VIRTUAL MEETING
PEAK Accountability & Action for Allies Affinity Group Meeting ([link removed])

August 12
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Unlock Your Jedi Skills to Constructively Deal with Drama (PEAK Mideast) ([link removed])

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** Weekly Reads
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"If you are rushing to feel normal and not do anything different than before—then you truly have not sat through discomfort, and you have not taken into account the privileges that are allowing you to opt out when the world needed to take such a devastating pause. ... Community-centric fundraising is, in essence, a method to change the fundraising we’ve known. However, it doesn’t mean that somewhere in the multiverse, there aren’t many other ways of fundraising that are also more equitable." [more] ([link removed])
Carlos García León, Community-Centric Fundraising

“To be expansive in our thinking, and to truly dismantle the system of white supremacy, we expand our micro power based on our proximity and access to power, authority, and influence. How much we choose to use our micro power as it expands and contracts is in direct proportion to how much we want to interrupt current inequitable power systems and the active decision to share our own power with Black people who have been disenfranchised systematically. If your goal is anti-racism, and if your access to resources is significant, the greater the change you can make and the greater your responsibility." [more] ([link removed])
Funlola Otukoya, McKnight Foundation

"In a new survey ([link removed]) of nonprofit and foundation communications professionals by The Communications Network, [the organization was] encouraged by data suggesting that organizations are turning to DEI principles in their day-to-day operations as well as in strategic planning for messaging, storytelling, and other aspects of their work.” [more] ([link removed])
Drew Lindsay, The Chronicle of Philanthropy


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